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I've been almost entirely commercial/advertising free for years now.

Not gonna lie, it isolates you from mainstream society a bit. Whether that is good or bad is debatable.



I’ve had the same isolation experience after kicking Facebook 3ish years ago. Also, it seems to have only gotten more isolating since. My wife effectively has to operate as a proxy between most of our family/friends and me, which is not a position she enjoys, and is not a position I intended on her being in.


I still come out with advertising jingles from the 90s that embedded themselves in my conscious as a teenager. No idea if those jingles exist now - I did make a effort to watch the Christmas adverts, m&s, John Lewis, Tesco, bbc, Sainsbury's etc, on YouTube. I also make a conscious effort to look at movie trailers, and indeed let YouTube play past the first 5 seconds on trailers of films that I don't know about and look interesting.


It's good.




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